RE: Accessing an HttpServletRequest from inside an AXIS2 module

If you are only concerned with http requests, an alternative would be to implement a servlet Filter[1].

Here is a very basic outline of what it could look like:

public class PerformanceFilter implements javax.servlet.Filter {

  public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) {
    final long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
    try {
        chain.doFilter(request, response);
    } finally {
      final long elapsed = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
      if (elapsed > threshold) {
        logger.error((HttpServletRequest)request.getRequestURI() + " from " + request.getRemoteAddr() + " took " + elapsed + "ms");
      }
    }
  }
}

[1] - http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/5/api/javax/servlet/Filter.html

Brett Okken | CAMM Platform Services | Lead Architect | 816.201.6112 | www.cerner.com | [email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Cherkassky [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 9:08 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Accessing an HttpServletRequest from inside an AXIS2 module

I am implementing AXIS2 services in my web application.  Our client's production boxes are a bit flaky, so I want a heads up when performance degraded.  Specifically:

- request comes into my AXIS2 service
- measure the time that the request takes
- if the time is greater than X, log an error

So I wrote an AXIS2 module like this:

     public class PerformanceHandler extends AbstractHandler implements Handler {
	protected Logger logger = null;

	public PerformanceHandler() {
		logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger( this.getClass() );
	}

	public InvocationResponse invoke( MessageContext msgContext ) throws AxisFault {
		HttpServletRequest r = ( HttpServletRequest )msgContext.getProperty( HTTPConstants.MC_HTTP_SERVLETREQUEST );
		if( msgContext.getFLOW() == MessageContext.IN_FLOW ||
msgContext.getFLOW() == MessageContext.IN_FAULT_FLOW ) {
			// incoming request
			Date timeIn = new Date( System.currentTimeMillis() );
			r.setAttribute( this.getClass().getName() + ".timeIn", timeIn );
			if( logger.isDebugEnabled() ) {
				logger.debug( "Request " + r.toString()  + " started processing at " 
+ timeIn );
			}
		} else {
			// outgoing response
			Date timeIn = ( Date )r.getAttribute( this.getClass().getName() + ".timeIn" );
			Date timeOut = new Date( System.currentTimeMillis() );
			if( logger.isDebugEnabled() ) {
				logger.debug( "Request " + r.toString()  + " finished processing at " + timeOut );
			}
			long delta = timeOut.getTime() - timeIn.getTime();
			if( delta > 300 ) { // todo: parameterize the delta threshold
				logger.error( "Request " + r.toString() + " took " + delta + "ms to process." );
			}
		}

		return InvocationResponse.CONTINUE;
	}
     }

After that, I edited the module.xml, axis2.xml appropriately, created the *.mar file and ran the app.


However, it seems that

     HttpServletRequest r = ( HttpServletRequest 
)msgContext.getProperty( HTTPConstants.MC_HTTP_SERVLETREQUEST )

is null.  That was unexpected.


So my questions are:

- How can I access the servlet request in an AXIS2 module?
- If this is not allowed, what's the alternative for me to track the 
time between request starting processing and ending processing?
- I should be using some other existing AXIS2 functionality that can 
give me the same kind of result?

Many thanks in advance,

-- 
Dave Cherkassky
   DJiNN Software Inc
   VP of Software Development

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